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The ToS of those providers prohibit the use of that except with explicit consent. I'm aware that the providers do little verification that consent was given, but I'm doubt that established companies such as facebook or twitter are going to risk a PR fiasco to get better anti-fraud numbers.



Yeah...in theory. They'll sell the data until it becomes a big news item

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/t-mobile-sprint-...




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